Berthoud Living Center
855 Franklin Avenue, Berthoud CO 80513 · (970) 532-2683 · 83.01% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
With an address in Berthoud, Colorado, Berthoud Living Center is the lone option we identified in this area. We gave this facility an overall grade of C. A score in this range requires some solid scores. Based on our analysis, there are certainly much worse nursing homes out there. The best part of this nursing home's profile was is its nursing score. Nursing grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 73 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
To go along with its decent overall score, we gave this nursing home an A- for our nursing rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall rating. Our nursing grade is primarily based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as good measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's second most favorable area is short-term care. We awarded it a B- in this category. This is basically a slightly below average grade in this area. With our short-term care category, we endeavor to forge a sound barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. This facility provided more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. This is what we like to find when assessing a facility in this category. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 38.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.
Facility Inspections
Turning to our inspection category, it appears this facility has received respectable inspections in recent years as well. We gave it a B- in this category. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility's weakest area was long-term care, which is the last area we looked at. Sadly, it received an F in this area. Despite multiple decent scores in other areas, this grade is still disappointing so we felt obligated to point it out. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category likely don't provide the type of consistent around the clock care that some other nursing homes offer. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 93.589745 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.97 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Berthoud Living Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care can limit the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a fall which caused serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Although a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to patients for many conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who maintained mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the overall quality of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's often correlates with better rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better